I did an upgrade install of SL on my Macbook and was very pleased initially. A few weeks ago, I started experiencing kernal panics with Superduper and Carbon Copy Cloner. The other day, iTunes 8 caused a KP (I then finally upgraded to version 9 last night). Yesterday, Grab KP'ed 3 times in a row. I'm left feeling that I may need to start from scratch but would greatly prefer not to go through the hassle. So for all you experts out there:
1. Is it best to suck it up and go through a clean install? Any other alternatives/suggestions?
2. Can I partition my current 320gig drive into two, install SL cleanly onto the second, set it as the startup disk and then go about copying over the App, Documents, Download and Desktop folders. i am hesitant to restore any settings from my Time Machine or a clone of the current drive made yesterday as I feel that will just invite back whatever bug caused this. I would then go through and setup each app with their preferences etc.
3. Any files that I am not thinking of that i need to consider bringing over to the new install apart from the above ones?
4. If all goes well, i would then erase out the first drive and use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the second partition onto the first and set it as the startup disk. If all remains well I would then erase the first partition and hopefully be back into a clean system.
Again, any thoughts/suggestions/advice are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
E
1. Is it best to suck it up and go through a clean install? Any other alternatives/suggestions?
2. Can I partition my current 320gig drive into two, install SL cleanly onto the second, set it as the startup disk and then go about copying over the App, Documents, Download and Desktop folders. i am hesitant to restore any settings from my Time Machine or a clone of the current drive made yesterday as I feel that will just invite back whatever bug caused this. I would then go through and setup each app with their preferences etc.
3. Any files that I am not thinking of that i need to consider bringing over to the new install apart from the above ones?
4. If all goes well, i would then erase out the first drive and use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the second partition onto the first and set it as the startup disk. If all remains well I would then erase the first partition and hopefully be back into a clean system.
Again, any thoughts/suggestions/advice are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
E